Course Schedule
This is a self-paced online course. Participants will work through each module individually at their own speed. You will have access to the course 24 hours a day 7 days a week so you can learn when and where you want.
The course, activities, and tests take approx. 20 hrs to complete. You will have access to the course until the end of April.
Lesson content is presented as text and videos. There are also interactive activities. There is no interaction with a live instructor. You can contact the instructors by email if you have any questions.
Participants will receive an enrollment email within 48 hrs of registering. Please check your junk mail if you do not see it. If this is your first online course with good roads, you will also get a new user email. Please use the link in the new user email to set your password.
Note: Online courses take place on our education website not our main website. The websites do not share the same usernames and passwords.
Course Description
Offers practical experience in using Ontario Traffic Manuals 5, 6 & 11. You will learn, through participation in group activities how signs and lines assist drivers as they travel from their point of origin to their destination. You will return to your municipality with an understanding of how these manuals work together plus a list of best practices to help minimize risk and defend the municipality in an insurance claim.
Course Content
- Principles of Positive Guidance
- Influencing driver safety
- Sign manufacturing & Three Speed Triangle
- Best practices for ordering road signs
- MMS Requirements for Signs
- Retroreflectivity & Reflective Sheeting
- Sign Management Program
- Regulatory Signs (OTM 5)
- Warning Signs (OTM 6)
- Pavement, Hazard and Delineation Markings (OTM 11)
- Collision investigations
Who Should Attend?
Decision makers and individuals responsible for the selection and placement of regulatory signs, warning signs, and the pavement, hazard and delineation markings.
Course Content
- Asphalt technology
- Concrete technology
- Grade construction
- Utilities
- Trails
- Municipal law
- Traffic control
- Planning
- Introduction to design and soils
- Frost action
- Pavement structure and granulars
Course Objective
This is an entry level course, which provides students with a basic foundation prior to attending any of the C.S. Anderson Road School Courses. The T.J. Mahony Road School is a two-year course comprised of two separate semesters. Road construction and road maintenance are offered in alternate years.
Who Should Attend
Public works employees involved in road construction and/or maintenance.
Accreditation
- The T.J. Mahony completion certificate is one of the options for the AORS Certified Road Supervisors Certification program, contact AORS for additional details.
- Must take both construction and maintenance to obtain 10 points credit in the technical specialist program
- The Engineering Institute of Canada awards 2 Continuing Education Units to this course.
Workshop Objectives
Managing a road system is far more complex than simply managing by pavement condition; it is only one factor in the final decision. This workshop will cover the identification and management of defects in six functional areas that are financial and legal risks for the municipality. Participants will learn to interpret the ratings in the Inventory Manual for Municipal Roads; to recognize the implications of defects found within the road allowance with respect to liability exposure and performance; to make decisions regarding road rehabilitation treatments; to differentiate between structural and non-structural defects, and how to relate the consequences of road rehabilitation treatments to capital budgets and programming.
Workshop Content
- Overview of the Inventory Manual for Municipal Roads
- Asset identification
- Existing road condition
- Traffic volume, type, and projected growth
- Point ratings of road elements
- Type and timing of required improvements
- Improvement costs
- Interpreting the data
- Liability exposure
- Managing your roads and pavements
- Capital and maintenance budget development (high level)
- Developing strategies for optimal management
- Interrelationship between pavements and other assets in the right-of-way
- Pavement defects and corrective treatments
- Case study examples of both urban and rural roads
Who Should Attend
Road managers and engineers, technologists and technicians responsible for capital planning and road system management.
Accreditation
This course is recognized by:
- Professional development credits may be allowed, please contact oacett.org for detail
